Here's the secret story of the 1944 sinking SS Léopoldville, whose victims included four men from Nebraska and seven from ...

One-hundred-year-old World War II veteran Casey Bukowski will speak at 10 a.m. next Monday at the Kenan Center’s Taylor ...

2024 Veteran's Day ceremony at Memorial Park Editor's note: At least 763 American soldiers from the Army's 66th Infantry Division drowned in the English Channel on Christmas Eve 1944 — 80 years ...

Asked how he was handling the 1944 buying rush, the manager of Scribner’s Manhattan bookshop replied (according to Bennett Cerf in Try and Stop Me): “Oh, at 9 o’clock we just open the doors ...

Editor's note: At least 763 American soldiers from the Army's 66th Infantry Division drowned in the English Channel on Christmas Eve 1944 — 80 ... 1990s and wrote a book about it.

The Secret Book and Record Store, if it weren’t for the man holding the placard outside it really would be a secret because no one would ever find it; hidden away enough that commercialism hasn’t ...

By Emily Eakin A new book traces shifts in the nation’s treatment of aging adults — for better and for worse. By Dwight Garner His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a ...

An erudite literary critic with an ear for language, he also wrote a raft of nonfiction books. By John Cotter In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the ...

Here are the books that delivered in 2024. The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson The 1955 murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi was a pivotal moment in American ...

Take a front-row seat in a 1960s Harlem theater to watch ballet’s forgotten trailblazers take their rightful space in the limelight or kick up your heels on a private island with a dark ...

Noreen Riols, , who has died aged 98, was one of the last surviving women to have served with SOE – sometimes known as “the ...

For 761 terrifying days, Anne Frank hid in the stifling quarters of a secret annex in Amsterdam, fearing that at any moment ...